Osian's Auction Catalogue India The Passionate Detachment | February 2001

ABSTACT-FIGURATIVE DILEMMA 187 173 GHULAM RASOOL SANTOSH (1929 - 98) Portrait of Francis Newton Souza Signed in Devnagari, l.r. Oil on canvas, 1965 62.0 x 100.0 cm. (24.4 x 39.4”) Rs. 200,000 – 250,000 $ 4,255 – 5,320 172 KANWAL KRISHNA (1910 - 1993) Explorer Signed in English, l.r. Watercolour on paper, early 1950s 30.5 x 21.2 cm. (11.9 x 5.3”) Rs. 50,000 – 75,000 $ 1,065 – 1,595 “ His studies of human types are remarkable, avoiding as they do the excessive care of Burne- Jones and the sketchiness which results from the admittedly powerful direct modelling of Daumier.” (K.Chaitanya, in Rooplekha Vol. XX No.1 1948-9. p40 ).